CVE-2025-68201 drm/amdgpu: remove two invalid BUG_ON()s
A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash in the amdgpu driver via invalid BUG_ON assertions, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-68201?
CVE-2025-68201 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: remove two invalid BUG_ON()s
Those can be triggered trivially by userspace.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-68201?
How do I fix CVE-2025-68201?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-68201 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68201 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as AZL-72434, BELL-CVE-2025-68201, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68201, GHSA-jg8m-x6c8-f2qf, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-68201, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-68201 and 3 more.